Grief+Creativity Podcast

So glad you are interested in checking out the Grief + Creativity Podcast! I’m kind of a Scanner, so this series is a bit irregularly offered 🙂 But I will keep this list updated as new casts get posted, so if you want to bookmark this page, it will be reliable way to get to all the cast. Thank you for listening and for the tips and cups of coffee you send. <3

The topic covered in today’s podcast is one from the series I called “Grief Truths” which were difficult truths to deal with in the face of grief. In this particular truth, I was wrestling with something like, “For them to like me, I have to like them, but I’m not really interested anymore.” It was a space of realizing that grief was having an impact on my social and relational experiences, and in that realization, acknowledging that creative curiosity could be a very helpful tool.

In today’s podcast, the focus is on resiliency during grief experiences. The biggest find in terms of resiliency, for me personally, came creatively. And the definition of creativity expanded beyond mere art-making, leading me to discover the heARTmaking of my still living, breathing body, even in the face of a grief I thought would break me.

This podcast is exploring how even the most tiny of things can get shaken and require us to make new meaning in the aftermath of grief. Small talk becomes no small matter for some us having grief experiences, and so in this episode

Do you think of storytelling as plot, character, denouement? Storytelling in reference to the grief experience can be so much more than form! Today’s podcast explores how we can break open the idea of storytelling to understand our experiences for ourselves, but also to have our experiences move beyond the cultural obsession with, “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that! What happened?” where we all get stuck in just the death story, the death moment.

For International Women’s Day and as I pondered the #DayWithoutAWoman strike, I ended up deciding to launch what I hope to develop into a GriefAndCreativity Dot Com podcast. Today’s topic is “Grief and Invisibility” as it came up for me around thinking and dreamstate leading into this strike day.